Project Details


WSIS Prizes Contest 2021 Nominee

Amelioration of Agriculture Advisory services through ICT during Covid 19


Description

Develop an online platform where Agriculture extension and Advisory services worker can find short messages on good Agriculture practices to share with Smallholder farmers. The online platform is been developed via worldpress, any practician can have access to it. Smallholder farmers receive counseling through their mobile phones in form of short messages system (SMS)

Project website

https://enjealnysagro.wordpress.com/ict4agd-projet-mefoup/


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Action lines related to this project
  • AL C3. Access to information and knowledge
  • AL C7. E-agriculture 2021
Sustainable development goals related to this project
  • Goal 2: Zero hunger

Global digital compact (GDC) objectives related to this project None

Coverage
  • Cameroon

Status

Ongoing

Start date

May 2020

End date

Not set


Target beneficiary group(s)
  • Remote and rural communities

Replicability

This project can be replicated in sub-saharan country where internet connexions and telecommunications networks is a problem. It was first developed for a specific now many village a benefiting it.


Sustainability

Yeah it is sustainable. Agriculture Advisory service in Cameroon need a tool like this to be more effective. USSD is to be put in place so that the service will be automatic for Smallholder farmers.


WSIS values promotion

End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture, benefits in all aspects of life — E-agriculture


Entity name

ENJEAL NYS AGRO

Entity country—type

Cameroon Civil Society

Entity website

https://www.enjealnysagro.wordpress.com